One of your five a day good for kissing too
Getting ready to pucker up this Valentine’s weekend? Best to get minty fresh or have a piece of fruit, avoid mornings and smoking, according to a new survey [1] about kissing from the No Smoking Day charity.
Over a third of the nation would prefer a minty kiss (38%), with a fifth (20%) preferring to get fruity when locking lips. A popular song may have influenced the 11% of men who declared cherry or other flavour chap stick their favourite flavour when smooching. With No Smoking Day under a month away (Wednesday 9 March) the charity has issued the findings to give another incentive to the 63%* of British smokers who wish to kiss their habit goodbye. Over half the nation (57%) would be put off kissing by smokers’ breath (56% of men and 58% of women) and so the charity believes not only would smokers improve their health by quitting but potentially their love lives. Only morning breath was more unpopular than tobacco breath with 59% of people stating it would put them off. Anyone booking a romantic dinner this weekend may like to consider that garlic and onion were the third least liked flavour when kissing someone (51%) Rachel Martin, from the No Smoking Day charity says: ‘Everyone has their own reasons for quitting and as over a quarter of single people in the UK smoke we felt a chance to enhance their love life may be the incentive they need to kiss their smoking habit goodbye.’ Finding the right partner to help you quit doesn’t have to be as difficult as finding your true love which is why No Smoking Day runs www.wequit.co.uk an online hub for quitters to find out different ways to quit and to chat online with each other to gain support and advice. * Figures from General Household Survey 2009 Notes to the editor 1. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 4010 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 31st January - 3rd February 2011. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+). 2. No Smoking Day is a UK wide charity that runs the highly successful annual health campaign helping smokers who want to quit. Now in its 28th year, the campaign’s mission is to inspire as many smokers as possible to help them quit their addiction and take control of their health and looks. 3. Research shows you are four times as likely to succeed with help from NHS stop smoking services 4. Call 0800 169 0 169 (ENGLAND), 0800 085 2219 (WALES), 0800 84 84 84 (SCOTLAND), 0808 812 8008 (NORTHERN IRELAND) for free advice 5. Of the 9 and half million smokers in the UK, 63% want to stop smoking 6. Stopping smoking is one of the best things you can do for your health
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